The European Union and State Building: Lessons For And From The Balkans

Friday May 08

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Fri May 08 9:30 AM - 6:00 PM Vivian and David Campbell Conference Facility

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Edith Klein

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Friday, May 8

9:30 AM
Welcome Remarks
Randall Hansen, Acting Director, Institute of European Studies, University of Toronto
Andrew Gilbert (University of Toronto)

10:00 AM -12:00 noon
Panel 1 Exploring the Contradictions of EU State-Building

Florian Bieber (University of Kent)
Building Conditional States: The EU as a State-Builder in the Western Balkans

David Chandler (University of Westminster)
The EU and State-Building in Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant: Kristof Bender (European Stability Initiative)

12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch break

1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Panel 2 The Power of Categories and the Politics of Classification I

Keith Brown (Brown University)
The Politics of Counter-Centralization in the former Yugoslavia

Andrew Graan (University of Chicago)
The Politics of Carrots and Sticks: “International Community” Publicity in Post-Conflict Macedonia

Discussant: Robert Austin (University of Toronto)

3:30 PM – 3:45 PM
Coffee Break

3:45 PM – 5:45 PM
Panel 3 Participatory Paradigms, Political Culture, and State-Society Relations in the EU State-Building Encounter

Paula Pickering (College of William and Mary)
Comparing the EU Model of State-Building to Other Models: The Case of Local Democratic Governance in the Western Balkans

Larissa Vetters (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Doing Democracy the Bosnian Way: Mostar’s Local Community Offices as a Site of Circulating Ideologies and Practices of Local Participatory Democracy

Discussant: Zsuzsa Csergo (Queen’s University)


Saturday, May 9

9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Panel 4 The Power of Categories and the Politics of Classification II

Jessica Greenberg (Northwestern University)
Serbia versus Transition: The Impact of “Europe” on Serbian Political Practice and Discourse

Andrew Gilbert (University of Toronto)
Foreign Authority, Europeanization, and the Politics of Impartiality in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina

Discussant: Kimberly Coles (University of Redlands)

11:30 AM Concluding Remarks